Summary:
ZIP code 47229 covers Crothersville, Indiana, a small rural area with just two schools — Crothersville Elementary School (PK–5, 230 students) and Crothersville Junior-Senior High School (6–12, 221 students) — both part of Crothersville Community Schools, serving about 451 students total.
Neither school is high-performing overall, but the elementary is the relatively stronger option in 2025–2026: it ranked 767 out of 1,015 schools (24th percentile, 1 star) versus the junior-senior high's 365 out of 415 (12th percentile, 1 star), and it beat the district in all-grade ELA (30.23% vs. 23.89%), math (29.07% vs. 21.67%), and science (13.64% vs. 13.46%). Its 3rd grade ELA (42.86%) and math (61.9%) scores were above state levels, and chronic absenteeism was 14.8%, better than the state's 16.7%. The junior-senior high, by contrast, dropped sharply from 2 stars and the 42nd percentile in 2024–2025 to 1 star and the 12th percentile in 2025–2026, with SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing falling from 60% to 30.56%, SAT Math from 12% to 2.78%, and biology from 25% to 13.46%; its chronic absenteeism is 29.5% and its graduation rate 77.7%, both well below state levels.
Science is a shared weakness, with all-grade proficiency near 13% at both schools. Math gains also fade after 3rd grade: 4th grade math is 22.73%, 5th grade 16.28%, 6th grade 6.67%, and 8th grade 7.14%. Resource inputs are similar — spending per student is $10,763 at the elementary and $10,596 at the junior-senior high, with student-teacher ratios of 15.8 and 15.2 — so the performance gap is not explained by large differences in funding or class size.
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